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Rachel Bullock </div>
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When I started the Intern Program at Render Media 5 years ago, I never dreamed we’d graduate 100+ interns, that we’d grow enough as a company to hire many of them full time, or that we’d deliver more than 100 hours of classroom training and countless hours of 1x1 instruction. In this post, the second installment in my series “Empowering Others: How and Why,” we’ll focus on the benefits of teaching. </div>
Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:21:39 +0000Jennifer Chang273 at http://www.rndr.comEmpowering Others—How and Whyhttp://www.rndr.com/empowering-others%E2%80%94how-and-why
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Rachel Bullock </div>
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Going from individual contributor to manager can be daunting for many reasons, but I think the one I struggled with the most at first was this: If I’m no longer a Project Manager completing projects on time, on target, and under budget, how will I know if I’m succeeding? How will my boss know that I’m doing a good job? It took a while for this to sink in—and even longer for me to stop struggling against it—but by growing our company from five employees to 45, by helping Render Media become one of the fastest-growing media companies in the country, I finally realized I am successful when others are successful; <b>I am doing a good job by empowering others to do a good job</b>. And you can too. </div>
Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:00:00 +0000Joel Murray256 at http://www.rndr.comThe Fastest-Growing Online Food Publication Partners with TV Talent for New Serieshttp://www.rndr.com/fastest-growing-online-food-publication-partners-tv-talent-new-series
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Vic Belonogoff </div>
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<p>30 years ago, there weren’t many choices for watching video content out there. You’d have maybe a handful of channels on TV, or you’d go see a movie. Fast forward to the present, and there are millions of video options out there on the Internet. An average American spends roughly 118 minutes per day on social media, and most of that goes to video-hosting platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram. So there’s a lot of competition for your (the viewer’s) eyes.</p> </div>
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:00:00 +0000Joel Murray253 at http://www.rndr.comWhy the Concerns over Facebook’s Video Metrics are Overstatedhttp://www.rndr.com/why-concerns-over-facebook%E2%80%99s-video-metrics-are-overstated
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Eytan Elbaz </div>
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<b>Facebook collects data on 100% of viewers - cable TV collects data on 0.02%.</b> There has been a lot of press recently around the accuracy of Facebook's video metrics. There are questions around measurement criteria such as 'What counts as a video view?' and 'Which views count toward the completion rate?' Some press and media outlets have questioned the value of these viewers and, more importantly, the validity of the data around these users. I believe these claims against new video platforms like Facebook and YouTube are dramatically overstated. “Concerns” about the accuracy and validity of viewers on digital platforms seem more like fear, uncertainty, and doubt that Cable TV providers are casting against the newcomers because their industry is threatened rather than true concerns around the metrics. </div>
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:00:00 +0000Joel Murray261 at http://www.rndr.comDigiday Profiles Cooking Panda, The Internet’s Newest, Tastiest Obsessionhttp://www.rndr.com/digiday-profiles-cooking-panda-internet%E2%80%99s-newest-tastiest-obsession
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Eytan Elbaz </div>
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<p>Render Media is making headlines with Cooking Panda, our exciting new digital food brand. On September 2, 2016, <a href="http://digiday.com/publishers/facebook-food-video-upstart-cooking-panda-plans-differentiate/">Digiday published an article</a> by Sahil Patel entitled “How Facebook Video Upstart Cooking Panda plans to go beyond overhead recipe videos”. The article speaks to the growth of Cooking Panda across several platforms and highlights the huge success of our Facebook content.</p> </div>
Wed, 14 Sep 2016 07:00:00 +0000Joel Murray260 at http://www.rndr.comRender Media Uses Social Know-How to Create Bold PSA Airing on Virgin America Flightshttp://www.rndr.com/render-media-uses-social-know-how-create-bold-psa-airing-virgin-america-flights
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Vic Belonogoff </div>
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<p>This September, you will see the Render Media logo adorning a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/VirginAmerica/videos/10154641905974411/">bold new advertisement</a> airing on domestic Virgin America flights. Only 46% of eligible millennials registered to vote in 2012. This statistic underlines the message of the advertisement produced and created by multi-platform digital media publisher Render Media in collaboration with Rock the Vote.</p> </div>
Thu, 08 Sep 2016 07:00:00 +0000Joel Murray252 at http://www.rndr.comWhy 'Hands-On' Is The Most Valuable Leadership Style At A Startuphttp://www.rndr.com/why-hands-most-valuable-leadership-style-startup
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Vic Belonogoff </div>
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There are two ways to build a startup: you either raise a lot of money, or you take a small amount of money, find a small, loyal team and you bootstrap. We chose to bootstrap our business, and as a new CEO, I adopted a hands-on approach to leadership. Being a hands-on CEO means putting in the extra effort to learn alongside your employees, to roll up your sleeves and take on tasks you normally wouldn’t consider tackling given your title. </div>
Tue, 10 May 2016 20:04:34 +0000Joel Murray251 at http://www.rndr.comHow Our Paid Intern Program Helped Us Develop Our Company Culturehttp://www.rndr.com/how-our-paid-intern-program-helped-us-develop-our-company-culture
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Rachel Bullock </div>
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I just hired our 25th employee. I have every confidence in the world Avery will contribute to the success of our company, work well with the team, and grow in her career. How do I know? Avery Archie is a graduate of our Intern Program. I started Render Media’s Intern Program in the summer of 2012, back when we had just a handful of employees. <b>Today 40% of our full-time staff interned with us first.</b> They all hold meaningful roles and have been some of the greatest contributors to our wins thus far. We have been able to promote from within thanks to our program, a huge source of pride for our staff. Several of our employees who started as interns are now in executive or management roles at Render, including our Director of Business Development, Aryeh Kluger, and our Senior Editor, Leanne Hall. </div>
Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:00:00 +0000Joel Murray255 at http://www.rndr.comNews that Will Both Support and Challenge Your Point of Viewhttp://www.rndr.com/news-will-both-support-and-challenge-your-point-view
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Eytan Elbaz </div>
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<b>Liberals will tell you that Guns Kill. Conservatives will tell you that Guns Protect and Save Innocent Lives.</b> <a href="https://www.opposingviews.com/">Opposing Views</a> will present both sides of this national issue to you. We do that by sharing the story of a <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/i-wanted-scare-him-teenager-18-accidentally-shoots-dead-his-high-school-classmate">senseless shooting death</a> that impacted a community, and another one about a gun that <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/missouri-woman-credits-gun-rights-saving-her-life-knifeman-convenience-store">ultimately saved an innocent person's life</a>. Five years ago we acquired a fledgling news property called Opposing Views. As we refined the mission, and focused on content, Opposing Views began to grow. We paid close attention to how our users interacted with the content, and we found that certain story types tended to perform better on social media than others. We tracked the data: <i>Articles with real people’s stories behind them perform 30 percent better than stories about bill, law or regulation.</i>
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Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:00:00 +0000Joel Murray259 at http://www.rndr.comNow is the Best Time in History to be a Publisherhttp://www.rndr.com/now-best-time-history-be-publisher
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Eytan Elbaz </div>
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When you imagine the newsrooms of traditional media organizations, you might think of a conference room filled with young, hungry journalists pitching ideas to a mature editor who had spent years working his way up the ranks. Or perhaps you think of an Editor-in-Chief walking over to the pit early in the morning, assigning today's stories to the up-and-coming writers. Render Media is one of the fastest-growing publishers on the planet, and <i>none of that happens at our company</i>. <b>Publishers like us who were born in the age of real-time metrics don't go by gut; we go by data.</b> The numbers tell us if a story is interesting, if a topic is shareable, if a user will click. We are focused on telling the best stories we can, fueled by hundreds of data-driven decisions every day. We use these data to select daily stories, choose the best formats to tell those stories, and determine the right time and (electronic) place to deliver those stories. </div>
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:00:00 +0000Joel Murray258 at http://www.rndr.com